UKIP’s mission: to make Britons proud again

With Nigel Farage declining to pick up the twitching reins of UKIP for a fourth (fifth?) time and hinting at a smoother, more driver-friendly vehicle to come, one might be forgiven for marking UKIP as a ‘sell’.

Results at this year’s county and general elections showed many of the party’s previous four million voters declaring ‘mission accomplished’, and returning to the revitalised brawl between resurgent socialism and something vaguely resembling conservatism.

But far from the Brexit vote closing a door for UKIP, it opens a wider one.

In demonstrating that a political party with no MPs of its own, armed only with a popular idea and the courage of its convictions, can change world history, UKIP has only just begun. Because UKIP is fundamentally mission-driven, and while Brexit was its goal for 23 years, its underlying mission remains unfulfilled.

The convulsive reversion in Britain’s political landscape this year, with four-fifths of voters supporting the two largest parties for the first time in forty years, may reassure old-school politicos that normal order has been restored.

But while Che Guevara socialism may have nostalgically rematerialised, and while a socially awkward Tory leader misjudged the public mood and has been punished at the polls, this is not 1974. The old order is on borrrowed time. David Goodhart’s analysis of how the liberal consensus failed, The Road to Somewhere, and Douglas Murray’s ice-cold contemporary history The Strange Death of Europe, together point the way.

UKIP’s motivating force is not a public nostalgia for 1970s student idealism, but a deep unease among the (non-Metropolitan) British citizenry that their country is being demolished.

The European Union was simply the most obvious manifestation of this: it is openly, proudly intent upon demolishing countries. But the hydra has many heads, and UKIP has always been clear that the enemy was not Johnny Foreigner, but our own governing class: the student revolutionaries of the 1970s who did not sit on the backbenches for forty years denouncing capitalism and voting against the bosses, but who went into careers in education, the media and the public sector, and ate the country from within.

Since the ‘long march through the institutions’ began, our sense of nationhood has been deliberately deconstructed. A combination of Gramscian entryism and liberal guilt, divisive multiculturalism and the European post-Imperial ennui described by Murray, has hollowed out the country that most British people – of whatever origin or heritage – wish to call home.

Our children have been detached from their heritage, with their historical awareness resting heavily on the grim tripod of Nazism, slavery and the Victorian slums. The glittering, world-changing triumvirate of Magna Carta, the Reformation and the Glorious Revolution barely get a look-in. Ironically, another fashionable chunk of the (non-linear) historical syllabus, on the Anglo-Saxons, reflects the last time that the population of these islands was significantly impacted by migrants imported by a host population suffering from post-Imperial ennui.

We have bred a middle class elite that is so historically ignorant and emotionally immature that it genuinely feels – ‘believes’ is too rational a description – that the UK is a valueless, loathsome relic of a brutal bygone age, whose legacy must be destroyed for the good of mankind.

The idea that Marlborough, Nelson and Wellington were earlier guarantors of Europe’s freedom from tyranny does not accord with the prevailing narrative. That Great Britain deployed evangelical Christianity and the muscle-power of its world-dominant Imperial navy to end the slave trade is not to be countenanced.

As Douglas Murray has illustrated, this oddly narcissistic self-loathing is replicated all over Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, their actual recent experience of ideological barbarity is far too fresh to allow them such self-indulgence.

UKIP’s ongoing mission is, simply, to reverse this.

It has been well documented by Matthew Goodwin and others that UKIP’s fanbase is dominated by older Britons of modest education who probably self-identify as working class. These voters have been called the ‘left-behinds’, which perhaps reflects the viewpoint of the intellectual perspective from which it comes. I would rather think of them as the ‘Where the hell do you think you’re going with that?’ people.

They are the ‘Somewheres’ who cleave to old-fashioned notions like belonging to a community, family, congregation, bridge club or football crowd. They are innately patriotic and neither know nor care what ‘xenophobic’ means. They support charities and contribute quietly to refugee and famine appeals. They may seldom go to Church but still put ‘CofE’ on their census returns and are subliminally comfortable living in a society rooted in Judaeo-Christian principles.

These are people who do not wish to see their country, their culture, their society, their history and their values disrespected and diminished. Though famously tolerant, phlegmatic and slow to rouse, they have now begun to think that they have had enough; and that in fact, as Brexit showed, there is something they can do about it, after all.

UKIP has always been – indeed only exists because it is – an amplifier of the classically British under-the-breath grumbling of these people. Its power to effect change as a political aggregator was tested, and proved, on the EU question.

UKIP’s first, expeditionary mission has been fought and won. Its greater mission is now underway. Having reclaimed our sovereignty, we now need to rebuild our national pride and self-confidence, so that we can do something useful with it.

After decades of Blairist centre-leftism and internationalism, we cannot rely on the debilitated establishment parties to achieve this. When Gordon Brown says ‘British jobs for British workers’, he follows it up with a ‘bigoted woman’ jibe. When Theresa May says ‘Enough is enough’, literally nobody believes she means it. When any of them accidentally blurts out the phrase ‘British values’, everyone shuffles their feet and changes the subject.

Apparently, one of the greatest British values – and one of the politician’s favourite get-out clauses – is that the British are uncomfortable talking about British values.

47 Comments

The nation is a pivotal point in taking back real control of laws, borders, trade and becoming truely sovereign or independent or staying in some worse off halfway house with eu control over aspects of our policy making. UKIP need to be fighting hard to press the unwilling British establishment to become truely free and embrace the opportunities the global economy and real independence presents. The EU will be scared of a free Britain. Steve is correct, there is no political future in becoming a niche anti Muslim or anti Islamic organisation.

Ian, Anne is only seen as niche because people paint her as that – Ms Collins at it again today on Twitter – it’s a shame we can’t have a civilized debate about the merits of candidates manifestos. I am ashamed of those who use smears for their own ends, and personally I think that they are bringing UKIP into disrepute, which is unforgivable.

It seems all the focus is on her as an infiltrator, and it may or may not be true (having Buckby as her campaign manager rules her out for me), but there are plenty of strange elements to JRE that seem to go unremarked. He’s clearly a religious fundamentalist for example. He also seems to be a survivalist with an armed compound with shooting range and panic room in Bulgaria. His business in Tanzania taking people up Kilimanjaro is registered in Gibraltar – he should be asked whether he is domicile for U.K. tax purposes.

When was UKIP ever mainstream, Graham, it’s part of it’s appeal. Personally I don’t care what people have been or have done – as long as it’s within the Law. I would like to point out that being an ex-BNP member, or a survivalist is nothing like as troubling to my mind as some of the more, er, unsavory practices, sometimes already uncovered and brushed aside, mostly not known about, lurking in the cupboards of those that govern us now.
I think UKIP are far too hung up on some things, especially on those demonized in the MSM. For instance, while the EDL degenerated into football holiganism, apparently, Tommy began it with good intentions as an amateur with no knowledge of how to go about it – his heart was in the right place, and has been ever since, yet he is demonized still by many within UKIP. As for Jack Buckby, if he is efficient, committed and of use, why should he not be used. I don’t know anything much about the BNP except that there were apparently racist members – ahem- UKIP doesn’t have a clean slate either! The thing that the BNP can always be proud of is that they tried to alert people to the grooming gangs long before anyone would listen.
If anyone has done real harm and painted UKIP as extreme right wing, neo-nazi and so on it is people within UKIP, mostly paid to represent the Party, not to smear it into oblivion. Their behavior disgusts me far more than what other ordinary people may or may not be doing in their private lives. In fact, John being a Christian means he is hardly likely to act as Cameron may or may not have done in the past – and a for being a survivalist – aren’t we all aspiring to be similar?!

I don’t know many people who build themselves armed compounds and carry a Glock around for protection. I feel that normal skepticism has been suspended in his case. One simple question from Iain Dale last year left him flummoxed, falling into same trap as Tim Farron. We should be equally tough in questioning all our candidates and making sure the full facts are known about them. Buckby was not a simple BNP member, he was an organiser and close to Griffin, even mentioned as a successor. You can see videos on YouTube of Buckby being introduced by Griffin at BNP conferences.

Dee
on July 29, 2017 at 4:36 pm

Oh Graham! I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. John’s ‘armed compound’ if it exists is in Bulgaria – are you directly reporting, or reporting ‘what you read’ which could have been a tad sensationalized. But does it matter, it’s not illegal.
My last point about John is that if I were younger I’d be delighted if he has, indeed, got an armed compound – I won’t need it, but some of you younger Kippers might, one day! He may find he has a great many new chums all of a sudden, some day soon. If he carries a gun as well, then he’s becoming more attractive by the minute! Before everyone has hysteria, I think I recall from the ‘report’ that he said he’d been to target practice and forgotten he was still carrying it in his pocket. Not a sawn-off shotgun, then. I was attacked on our farm once and saved by my dog, which bit the attacker, so luckily I didn’t need a gun – you probably do, in some parts of the world.
As to Jack Buckby, he was, you say, an organizer. Could that be a clue that he has an ability to ‘organize’? And ‘introducing’ Nick Griffin, so did David Dimbleby! George Osborne spent time on a boat in the Med (I think it was the Med) with some far more worrying characters, to my way of thinking.

Panmelia
on July 29, 2017 at 2:58 pm

@ Graham
JRE is eccentric, but I don’t blame him for having a panic room in Bulgaria; there are some very heavy people there, apparently. Anne Marie is Britain’s Geert Wilders and she will eventually achieve electoral success, as he has done, step by step.
I’d never heard of Jack Buckby until I read that he is Anne Marie’s adviser, so I googled him and watched various videos he’s made and a typically biased BBC programme he appeared in. He left the BNP because he thought it was too racist and helped to form Liberty GB. Having listened to him, I find him intelligent and coherent in his views and have no problem with his being a close associate of Anne Marie. He was saying years ago what we can see clearly now.
I refuse to accept any label that the Leftards and the biased MSM try to attach to anyone. For me, THEY are the enemy and the unpatriotic extremists. These traitors care nothing for this country, its history, its values, its people, especially the working class. A typical left/libtard accusation is that patriots are ‘divisive’. This makes me laugh: who created the divisions in this country by allowing it to be flooded with immigrants and muslims for the last 70 years? – the globalist politicians masquerading as different parties in order to fool the electorate into thinking they had a choice at elections. The liblabcon are the real enemies of the people, not those who speak up and out to expose them.

Can Ii remind you that UKIP has a ban on ant ex-BNP members joining. The BNP was/is a race-based nationalist party. David Kuerten would not be standing for leadership there! If you watch enough Buckby videos (he has many) you will find a thread running through them is he detests Farage. He’s an infiltrator and she is enabling him.

If nobody has read it yet then google the Vice News JRE interview which was done at the Bulgarian compound. It’s factual accuracy has never been disputed and it’s actually quite sympathetic, but he comes over as an end-of-days Christian fundamentalist.. it isn’t even clear if he actually lives permanently in the UK. Remember, the future of our party depends on this vote and everyone should be diligent.

GEOFFREY CHARLES ELLIOTT.
on July 31, 2017 at 2:48 am

Dee and everyone,I really must apologise,i meant to say:this was a defining moment,and not a defying one,I really am so sorry,Geoffrey.

Can I just say as a young person. AMW does not have a major youth following. Amongst YI it’s JRE that seems to have the most support, and it’s only really a small handful that support AMW. In the wider youth, Tommy Robinson does have some more coverage, but compared to people like Ben Shapiro, Sargon of Akkad, Milo Yiannpoulos, Douglas Murray and Lauren Southern, AMW and Tommy Robinson’s presence in the youth is low.
AMW is just seen as a bit shouty and shrill from my experience, and Mr Robinson has a lot of toxicity surrounding him given the EDL connections.
It might be worth reminding the people on here that much like with Corbyn, just because a party membership like someone or a policy, doesn’t mean the general public do.
Another example is gay marriage with the Tories. Many people voted UKIP out of outrage at that policy. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because you would vote for a policy, means the general public would.

Thank you Thoshammer, interesting. I know John had a lot of support in the last Leadership election – some left when he was ignored post result? I think John R-E is a great inspirer, and I fully understand that. My only worry is that DD while great within UKIP may not be embraced by the general public. Do you think DD would appeal to young people outside UKIP?

Well I can say that it appeals to me as a former UKIP and YI member. It’s potentially very popular as almost everyone outside of the Tories I personally know supports electoral reform of some sort. It’s also critical that we start talking about monetary reform. These are issues that barely anyone talks about in mainstream politics. JRE also represents if you like an ideal through his background (family man, traditional Anglican, self-made businessman) that also appeals to the young.

Now as you can probably tell I’m not the biggest fan of AMW, and while I don’t feel she’s the devil incarnate as some do, she is percieved as single issue. Furthermore bear in mind the indoctrination on Islam that many kids and students have been subject to means that they normally won’t be able to stomach a party that attacks Islam in the direct way that AMW supports. Some are able to, but we’re dealing with a minority within a minority. I don’t feel as a result that the kippers who support her are being realistic when they say she’s the only chance to save the party. Remember that UKIP used to have a raft of other policies but Nigel and Paul only ever were known to talk about the EU and Immigration. I can highlight key moments in party history where UKIP could have broken that mould but didn’t. Like the 2013 conference where Bloom effectively killed positive coverage by making a stupid joke. Or Nigel and his HIV tourism comments.
In many cases it wasn’t that UKIP was single issue but the leadership made it so, and I think AMW runs the risk of doing the same on Islam, and as it’s such an emotive issue it will simply put young people (and others) off.
Normally the general public have not read the Qu’ran , Hadiths or any holy book (including the Bible) so they get their idea of religion from their perception of the devout. They don’t associate their lovely tolerant Muslim friend with the violence inherent in Islam. Unfortunately for AMW, that’s the ultimate thing that would likely mean UKIP would be commiting seppuku if they elected her.
Because in part our Islamic communities are better intergrated than the ones in France and the Netherlands, we shouldn’t expect to be mobalising the youth in the same way with that direction as the PVV and FN have.

Thoshammer, thank you for taking the time to post that extremely interesting comment.
As you may have gathered, I have nailed my colors to AMW’s mast. However, I think it essential that John Rees-Evans, if he doesn’t win, is brought in to the top team. There are comments on today’s posts that say neither have ruled out working together. This time, UKIP needs a cohesive team, and the talent is there. The task of rebuilding UKIP is huge and needs a comprehensive approach imo.
I would just comment on your last paragraph, and say that Raheem’s new book, out in a couple of weeks ‘No Go Zones, How Sharia Law is coming to an Area near You’ details the extremely alarming state of play here in the U.K. It’s not so much that Muslim communities are more integrated in the U.K., it’s just that they are so completely segregated at present that there is little trouble.

So very true, thanks for telling us what should be obvious but seems to escape so many on here. We have to have popular policies which connect with people’s lives and a mass vote.
The good thing is that AMW agrees and will act on it.

Good article by Steve. I do not support AMW but she must be allowed to stand. The members will decide just how popular her ideas are and we will thus all know where the party is heading, right now we have no idea, let alone the general public.
The Autumn conference will show us if UKIP is still a viable party, it had better be the end of the internal squabbling that is destroying us. With both main parties in turmoil there will never be a better chance for us to make an impression with a set of new “improved” policies and a clear battle plan.

There are good points made in this article. However the threat we face is from Islam.

UKIP needs to blend the sentiments expressed in the article, together with a solidly based realism about Islam. Islam itself, not “Islamism” or “Islamic extremism”.

Whenever Theresa May or others in the LibLabCon say that the terrorist attacks are nothing to do with hijacked peaceful Islam, there needs to be a UKIP spokesman prominently in the media calling out these lies. Just allowing these lies to be unchallenged cannot help us win the future for sanity and decency.

Rob I believe you were once a member of the NEC.I wonder if you could answer a couple of questions for me. When the members voted for who we wished to be on the prospective MEP list, how well did Godfrey Bloom do before he was pushed to one side? Also why was the members forum scrapped, was it to stop the MSM picking up naughty postings or was it just to shut up us plebs?
Thanks in anticipation

Gidfrey – don’t recall, probably very well, but you can’t go hitting Michael Zcrick on film and ruining our (up to that point) excellent conference coverage!

The members’ forum was closed by general NEC agreement, despite my objection, because libellous and obnoxious posts (e.g. about Neil Hamilton) were being made. Had members shown more maturity in their posts it might have been possible to save it.

I was very impressed with Steve Crowther’s piece, sadly brushed aside by The Telegraph and I suggested to Viv that we ask Steve to publish it here. I’ll admit I had to read it a few times because it includes some very interesting points. I’ve never heard anyone else make THIS point so well, the nub of Britain’s massive problems: “the student revolutionaries of the 1970s who did not sit on the backbenches for forty years denouncing capitalism and voting against the bosses, but who went into careers in education, the media and the public sector, and ate the country from within”.

Steve has always been working in the back room so we were never really sure what his thoughts were but now we know and it’s inspiring stuff.

After all these years in politics and dealing with endless feisty kippers like us, of course Steve Crowther has a mountain of well formed ideas, long overdue a good airing! If only we could get our broadcast channels sorted, that means a dedicated UKIP YouTube channel, with QUALITY broadcasts (AMW has just shown us how to do it), a punchy national website, consistent Twitter output, weekly Brexit/UKIP news emails to all members etc etc.

Yes, yes we all know this already, it is what my boss used to call “motherhood”. The lack of specificity is alarming (although not unexpected) from someone who has been on top for 8 years. Seems we going nowhere fast. It isn’t a generalist “make us proud” (which Corbyn could even say) it is “Guarantee British Sovereignty and Freedom”

Well, if it was written for the Telegraph, it was written for a completely different audience. It explains the patronising remark about ordinary people not knowing the meaning of ‘xenophobic’; also the odd reference to them playing bridge.
There’s no attention paid to the elephant in the room, but I suppose Telegraph readers wouldn’t want their sensibilities upset over breakfast by mentioning the unmentionable.
I would argue that Britons of any worth are already proud of their country and would just like it back to how it was before Leftard/Libtard politicians crammed it with immigrants and islamics who have dragged it down to 3rd world level. The unforgivable thing is that they did this without the will or the consent of the majority of British people. A plague on all their houses.

There are two routes to containing Islam: direct `attack’, the Anne Marie way, and indirect by asserting the superiority of own culture. Crowther is promoting the second route.

The question of approach is a genuine one worthy of proper discussion. Religion and politics do not mix. We should say so. Islam is too politicised and gets disproportionate air time (so to speak) and grievance time. We should drown it out.

The problem with FGM, rape gangs etc is that we do not defend and pursue our existing laws. Asserting our own culture and values, the rule of law for all, is a route with potentially wide appeal.

I do not think Mr Crowther’s approach should be so summarily dismissed as Anne Marie’s devout supporters are inclined to do.

Anne Marie helped launch Pegida UK. Wasn’t a success. UKIP as Pegida Mark 2 is unlikely to be more successful.

I hope she is allowed to stand. We do need the debate and should respect the varying views. Let us debate them not diss each other out of hand.

I realise that to some Mr Crowther is the devil. I’ve heard it said he is common purpose even. But do not make what is called the philosophers fallacy of looking at who said something instead of what is said.

If asserting our own culture fails we still have the option of Pegida mark 2. The other way round, if it failed, would finish us for good.

The article was written for the DT not as an internal memo to kippers.

Islam cannot be eradicated, Stout, but it’s my contention that our best hope is to face up to what is wrong and try to put it right. To do that we have to face the problem. The main problem, as Raheem will point out in his forthcoming book, is the segregation of whole communities in Britain. This is allowing whole communities of young men to be educated in the extreme forms of Islam, at home and in madrassas, so the problem is rapidly going to get worse. Women and girls in these communities have no hope of ever knowing the freedoms they could, if free, enjoy in Britain.
Sharia Law is at the root of the problem. Asserting our own culture is not enough. We have to call out the culture that is aiming to replace our own. We should support apostates and moderates to speak out with us, instead of having a collective national nervous breakdown if anyone criticizes Islam. If enough of us open up the conversation it will be had. But it has to be done from a position of knowing what we’re talking about, not going off half cock which is the only way Sharia and Islam has been tackled up to now. And it has to include apostates and reformers, who up to now have never been given either a voice or support. There really is no defense that can be made, publically, of the indefensible, once it is out in the open.
I don’t see Anne’s way as being single issue, it has been made that by people within UKIP who want to stop her from standing. She has a good manifesto. She is trusted by ordinary people because she is one of the few who has ‘put her head on the block’. Do you not think our pride as a nation will be rebuilt if people see there is a Political Party who takes their side, understands their frustrations and fights on their side? A Party that stands with them and beside them, and doesn’t simply lecture from the sidelines?
Even a couple of years ago there was no such movement as Gays Against Sharia. Or Veterans against Terrorism. Or Football Lads Alliance. ‘Terrorism’ is a euphemism – we all know that it encompasses much more than that. Things are changing, Stout, and imo the old ways need to be adapted. Even two years ago acid was not a weapon of common use. It is quite probable that more women are wearing Burkas now because they know it will keep them safe from rape and if they don’t wear them, they will be targets in their own communities.
I honestly think if we talk about British values, younger people have no idea what we mean. They haven’t been taught these values, they don’t look at it like that any more. I don’t think we have time to do anything but grasp the nettle.

The Koran itself tells them to be segregated. It is not the fault of us infidels, although of course some fools like to think it is.

“O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as Auliya’ (friends, protectors, helpers, etc.), they are but Auliya’ to one another. And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya’, then surely he is one of them. Verily, Allah guides not those people who are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers and unjust).”http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nora/html/5-51.html

I agree. But asserting our culture is to apply one law for all, to actually pursue and prosecute (at least as how our culture used to be), to mandate education in our history, culture and values (and thus to reverse the damage caused to our education system by the left). Becoming Pegida Mark 2 is not enough. Being against something is not enough. We have also to be for something, something that necessarily deals with what we are against but promotes an alternative as well, sets out a vision for how our society will be.

Ok but I think the rule of law already contains without fear or favour. Remember it is “be you so very high the law is above you”. The problem is that the law has been politicised to support the left’s agenda.

http://www.ukipdaily.com/ukip-must-face-islam-die/
Mr Crowther,as my dear friend,colleague and activist,Panmelia points out above,you fail to mention once the elephant in the room-Islam,that omission was your first big mistake,the second was when you omitted to let everyone know your part in the collapse of the UKIP vote at Stoke,heralded by that vile and despicable Muslim Appeasing pro bloody Halal Leaflet.The third is when you and the rest of the dullards who still cling onto power,with the support of some of your lackies in the NEC stopped the Brave and Courageous Anne Marie Waters from standing in Lewisham for us in the General Election.Mr Crowther I find the title of your article stupid,crass and condescending,how the hell you bunch of failures are going to make Britain Proud Again,is beyond my comprehension.You represent the past,there can be no future for UKIP as long as you and the rest of the rotten cabal remain in UKIP.
I was a great supporter of Nutall,but that soon changed with all his lies,Hillsborogh being the worst,but when I found out about that bloody pro Halal lLeaflet I was incandescent with rage,I knew then that no one would vote for us again for a very very long time.I continued to call for Nutall and the rest of his dullard supporters to stand down.I did not give up,saying things,such as if if you care for the future of UKIP
and if you care about the future of our once great country,and had a decent bone in your body,you would do the right thing and stand down no.But did any of you go,of course you didn’t,you areall too cosy in your little and oh so well paid jobs.Worse still
none of you we’re prepared to speak about that vile change of policy,you just buried your heads in the sand,hoping that it would die a natural death,your wall of silence
did not fool me.I am glad that Nutall has gone,he was hopeless,as I was glad that that othe traitor Arnott has also gone.I was also please to hear that Etheridge has also gone,I just want you and the rest now gone,you represent the past.
There is only one person fit to lead UKIP now,andtbat is the Brave and Courageous
Anne Marie Waters,I am so pleased that her sponsor is the great Stuart Agnew,who is someone whom I have the greatest respect,he has been a great ambassador for us for many years.I will say this now,if Anne Marie does not become the new leader
of UKIP we are well and truly finished.Click on my link,and you will see the huge support she has,more people commentated on Anne Marie than ever before.

Dear Geoffrey, don’t know if you watched the youtube video of the Q&A in London recently. David Kurton, AMW and JRE were quite impressive IMO. I believe any of them and especially if they were able to join as a team could be the saving of UKIP or maybe even the country.

I was earlier going to sarcastically thank Crowther for at last writing an article for UKIP Daily but it seems it was only put on here cos the Telegraph didn’t want to know.

Thanks John for your reply,and yes I agree they would indeed make a great team,I personally think that when Anne Marie becomes our new leader,our beloved Party will once again rise up,and she will increase our membership,as only she has the ability and message to appeal to the many millions whom have been abandoned,and betrayed by the vile verminous traitors from either side of The House who have bent over backwards in their appeasement of the death cult Islamists,who hate us and seek and celebrate our death and destruction.John your sarcasm to Crowther I very much welcome.Already we have had a few of UKIP’s big beasts now coming here on UKIP DAILY,all bearing false witness against the wonderful Anne Marie and bowing down to Islam.They all represent the past,just look how many members we have lost since that absurd and despicable Muslim Appeasing bloody Halal Leaflet,and that abysmal performance at Stoke.Also lately here on UKIP DAILY,we have started to hear from some of those others who are standing against the wonderful Anne Marie,they all spout forth how the are going to be the saviour of UKIP,but they have nothing to offer us,I see through them all and their Delusions of Grandeur.I will state this now to all of
them,if someone as well known as Bill Etheridge can stand down,as he could see how hopeless was his support,then why can’t the rest of you,as in reality you haven’t a snowball’s chance in hell of beating the wonderful Anne Marie
Waters,I rest my case.
Thank you,Geoff.Elliott,RCT Branch,Pontypridd.

An excellent article that describes the essence of a UKIP supporter and/or voter extremely well. It also makes clear the continuing need for such a party.

However, I fear that UKIPs continual shooting of itself in the foot over the last 12 months may have been so thorough that it may now be mortally wounded and its name fatally tarnished. If this turns out to be so, I sincerely hope that the blessed Nigel turns out to head up a suitable replacement.

Our young have been cast adrift, so they cling to any old nonsense they are offered. However even with everything so totally in Labours favour they still failed to win – so they are not stupid.

The gap in politics right now, is for a party that represents a bold, brave, new, lean, agile UK going forwards. LibLabCon are so close to each other now they are in danger of collapsing into a singluarity, a black hole that stops time on the event horizon of brexit.

UK will always be negotiating, talking etc with the rest of the world – including the EU (while it exists), the brexit negotiations are nothing special we must leave the EU asap, talking to the EU and the rest of the world will continue, this is just the new business as usual.

UKIP (or any non LiblabCon legacy party) should have a model for the morning after brexit in place now and be fighting to get it implemented ASAP. Agree the absolutes, leave some flexibility elsewhere and show the legacy parties that they have no place in our future.

China and the rest of the world are not idiots, they are not poor, they have all the resources the UK has – we can not beat them head on in a power struggle. The unique thing that post Brexit Britain can do is cut government and central planning back to the absolute minimum and so free everyone of our citizens to give 100% to what they believe in – the cream will rise to the surface, and failures can move on quickly! UK will succeed by having 80 million heads working precisely on that – not a few dozen doderers in a stuffy central planning department of a big state, socialist, government department.

I think that every true British patriot of whatever class knows what ‘xenophobic’ means, seeing as it was one of the milder ‘insults’ tossed around before, during and after the Referendum campaign. I’m not sure that people who don’t know what ‘xenophobic means play bridge.
Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, was particularly interested in the cultural hegemony of the bougeousie as a means of keeping control and avoiding revolution. The ‘long march through the institutions’ inspired by his ideas and carried out by the revolutionary students of the 1960s has resulted in all the ills you describe, particularly in the fields of education and politics. Now we have a different cultural hegemony, not of the bourgeousie, but of Politically Correct Leftard/Libtard ‘intellectuals’ whose aim is to make every schoolchild ashamed of British history and laugh the idea of patriotism to scorn. They also wish to convince white British children that this country does not belong to them, but must be shared with everyone in the world who wishes to come here, regardless of nationality, race, and religion, however incompatible or inimical the latter might be to our way of life and long-held values. The influence of these Communist internationalist infiltrators who entered the professions to destroy our country from within will not easily disappear with their retirement or death; they have transmitted their anti-British memes quite successfully through every level of education, especially universities. The working-class are less likely to attend university and are therefore less contaminated by those memes, which is why we must recruit them to our cause.
You mentioned multiculturalism once, but islam not at all. The imposition of multiculturalism on our society has weakened it, but the ideology itself has lost credibility and needs to be finished off for good. islam is far more dangerous to our survival as a free nation, now and in the future. It cannot be ignored and we need a new leader who can handle the issue with political aplomb. If such a leader is not forthcoming, UKIP will become irrelevant. The new PC cultural hegemony consisting of the political establishment and the MSM will react hysterically, demonise us, try to blacken us as extremists and fascists etc etc, but we need to remember who and what they are: anti-patriotic, anti-British, anti-democratic followers of Marx, Gramsci, Stalin and all the other loathsome totalitarians.

The people you seem to have left out of this article, Mr Crowther are the young people who are educating themselves on the direction the country is going, and who are trying to fight against it. Perhaps this is the core of the UKIP problem, which is why we are where we are. Nothing wrong with appealing to the older generation, but what does UKIP offer the young working class people, who don’t believe in the hogwash they were taught in school -‘who know, as Tommy Robinson so graphically described, that outside the school gates the world is very different. Young, ethnically diverse (to coin a ghastly phrase) straight, gay, – if you aren’t a Momentum groupie you don’t have a Party either to relate to or to vote for. These young people have Leaders who they follow – Tommy Robinson, Tommy English and Anne Marie Waters. They are organizing marches, well behaved in spite of Antifa provocation as well as obvious police bias, and where is UKIP? I have asked this question many times on Twitter. I’m told that ‘UKIP don’t ‘do’ marches’. Oh really? Why not? A March of the FLA had ten thousand mostly men from the South of England alone. But not a UKIP speaker in sight. No-one to say join us, we will fight for you, for our culture, our way of life and our people! Not a salaried UKIP representative in sight!
Why not. UKIP is closed to young people – in fact UKIP is a closed shop. It certainly gives that impression. Anne Marie is the only person that marches with others and is known to be a UKIP member. People also know, because we have social media these days, how she is being and has been treated by the Powers that Be within UKIP. Are they really going to sign up, no matter how hard she tries? Many did, when she said she was standing for UKIP. Already disillusioned because apparently they won’t be able to vote, do you really think they will vote UKIP in future? They won’t, they will stay away like they have had to do so far, because no-one represents them. UKIP are letting down all our young, right thinking people – don’t be surprised if one day what they have not been allowed through the ballot box they will try, and of course fail, to get by other means. Give them a chance. So far, UKIP has failed disgracefully to stand with them.

Spot on Dee. Of course UKIP should march. UKIP should be involved in what it claims to stand for.

For years UKIP’s energy policy was broadly opposed to wind follies, for example, but where were they? With the notable exception of Roger Helmer, and John Hayes (conservative) nobody from UKIP was prepared to turn out for any of the wind ‘farm’ objections or inquiries I’ve been involved in on the Fens over the years. The idea seems to be to gain political point scoring benefits from local issues without engaging or putting in any of the effort that local residents put in for themselves.
If UKIP wants to be taken seriously then UKIP should stop treating politics as a talking point hobby and start taking the issues it claims to be concerned about seriously.

Who is going to replace Roger Helmer when he retires from the EU Parliament?
Where is Diane James? Has she been asked to resign? Ditto Steven Woolfe?
Why was AnneMarie Waters blocked from standing for UKIP in the GE2017? Did you approve of the decision? How many paid up members are there right now?
Why do you think that ignoring a member of 8years+ will be considered good practice?